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Thinking
Out loud
See Schtossberg's Column
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inc
JEWISH
Tiiviiccr
Vol. XXXVI, No. 37
April 30, 1981
Price 25<
Walkathon Israel
Set For Sunday
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.,
along with his congressional
predecessor, the Rev. Robert F.
Drinan, and Lt. Gov. Thomas
O'Neill will be headlining a list of
dignitaries participating in the
Walkathon-Israel Independence Day
Celebration this Sunday, May 3, in
Newton.
"We're hoping for a record
turnout of at least 10,000, many of
whom will participate in the 1 p.m.
Walkathon, then join in celebrating
Israel's 33rd birthday," Mary Ellen
Grossman (MEG) Goldberg, chair-
person of the day, said.
Congressman Frank, Fr. Drinan
and the lieutenant governor will be
among the leaders in the Presidents'
Mile, an innovation of the 1981
Walkathon designed to attract the
presidents of every major Jewish
organization in Greater Boston. Also
marching will be a host of celebrities
from the worlds of entertainment,
politics and the media.
Chairman of the Presidents' Mile
are The Hon. Michael Bavly, consul
general of Israel to Boston and Ruth
B. Fein, president of Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of Greater
Boston.
For young children and older
persons, the Presidents' Mile will
also serve as a mini-walk, with a
separate registration opening at 1:30
p.m. at One Wells Ave. Walkers will
be shuttled directly to the Solomon
Schechter Day School, site of the
Presidents' Mile.
Registration for the regular
walkathon opens at 12:30 p.m. at
One Wells Ave. On this year's
shorter, less hilly route, walkers will
proceed from the initial checkpoint
at One Wells Ave. to the Oak Hill
Playground, which serves as check-
point two; they will then move on to
Temple Beth Avodah, the Solomon
Schechter School, and conclude at
the Central Area Facility.
Continued on Page Six
News Highlights
REPORT AUSTRIA WILL SELL
ABOUT 100 TANKS TO SAUDIS
VIENNA, (JTA) � About 100
Austrian tanks, originally intended
to go to Chile, will be sold instead to
Saudi Arabia, the West German
magazine, "Der Spiegel", reported.
The sale to Chile by the tank
manufacturer, Steyr-Dalmler-Puch,
fell through last year after wide-
spread public protests forced the
government to deny an export
permit to that country, governed by
a rightwing military dictatorship..
The manufacturer has since
managed to interest the Saudis in
buying most of the tanks, "Der
Spiegel" said. Despite opposition in
Parliament by members who
consider the deal potentially
dangerous to Israel, it is apparently
supported by Foreign Minister
Willipad Pahr. "Der Spiegel"
quoted Pahr as observing that the
Arabs are not engaged in a shooting
war with Israel.
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DUTCH UNIFIL SOLDIERS
INTERCEPT TERRORISTS
TEL AVIV, (JTA) � Soldiers of
the Dutch contingent of the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) intercepted eight terror-
ists in their sector and forced them
to leave the area after confiscating
their weapons, a UNIFIL spokes-
man said. He said the terrorists
were members of George Habash's
Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, an offshoot of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization.
Meanwhile, the UNIFIL command
has lodged a complaint with the PLO
in Beirut against the firing of 24
missiles from PLO positions toward
the UNIFIL-held area. There were
no casualties, the UNIFIL spokes-
man said.
The UN forces in Lebanon have
been receiving their food, spare
parts and other supplies through the
port of Haifa in Israel for the past
two weeks because renewed fighting
in Beirut has closed the port. The
port of Sidon on the south Lebanese
coast has also been closed, UN
sources said.
JUSTICE ETZIONI CONDEMNS
ATTACK ON PERES
JERUSALEM, (JTA) � Chair-
man of the Central Elections
Committee, Justice Moshe Etzioni,
sharply condemned the attack on
Labor Party chairman Shimon
Peres and Histadrut Sec. Gen.
Yeroham Meshel during the
Mimouna festivities in Jerusalem.
Regan Delays Arms
Sale To Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON, (JTA) � Sen.
majority leader Howard Baker
(R.Tenn.) announced that President
Reagan has agreed to delay submis-
sion of the Administration's
proposed multi-billion dollar arms
package sale to Saudi Arabia until at
least the fall in order to allow
Congress to have some "input" into
the proposal.
Baker, who made the announce-
ment while answering questions on
CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" pro-
gram, predicted that the arms
proposal when finally adopted would
be "significantly different" than the
package now being mentioned. He
said that the way the package is now
becoming publicized, including the
sale of five AWACS and enhance-
ment equipment for the 62 F-15 jet
fighters, it would have a "hard time
passing Congress."
Baker suggested that there are
many ways that the AWACS sale
could be changed. He listed some as
including joint American and Saudi
crews and joint processing of data,
Jewish Vote
Appears Split
In France
PARIS, (JTA) � The French
Jewish electorate seems split in
supporting the two candidates,
President Valery Giscard d'Estaing
and Socialist leader Francois
Mitterrand, who will face each other
May 10 in the run-off elections for
the French Presidency. The two
men emerged from the preliminary
first round as the top vote-getters
and are expected to run neck-in-neck
in the finals.
The Jewish community as such
decided not to participate in the
election campaign, but a Jewish
splinter group, Jewish Revival, led
by a young attorney, Henri Hajdne-
berg, is calling for a "sanction vote"
against Giscard which amounts to a
vote in favor of the Socialist leader.
Hajdenberg has called on France's
Jews to "punish the (incumbent)
President for his pro-Arab policy."
There are some 400,000 Jewish
voters out of a total of 36.5 million
and the Jewish vote might deter-
mine the outcome should the
election be as close as most political
analysts expect. In 1974 Giscard won
by only 450,000 votes against
Mitterrand. Both candidates have
influential Jewish supporters.
Giscard can count on European
Parliament President Simone Veil,
and Mitterrand on former Premier
Pierre Mendes-France.
Recent results indicated that the
Jews, as far as could be ascertained
from a study of voting areas with
strong Jewish concentrations, split
their vote along the same lines as the
general public. Both candidates are
preparing to actively woo the Jewish
electorate during the next two
weeks.
The two candidates are expected
to discuss the Middle East when they
meet face to face in a television
debate before the elections.
or American control of the final end
product. He said that what the
consultations with Congress would
try to achieve would be to make the
final package "more acceptable to
our friends in Israel and still
acceptable to our friends in Saudi
Arabia."
The Senator would not indicate
how he would vote for the present
package. But he said as the
"President's point man" in the
Senate, he would be inclined to
support major Administration pro-
posals unless it conflicted with his
conscience.
Baker projected that Congress
will "not like" the heavy pressure it
is expected to undergo from friends
of Israel who are opposed to the sale
of the arms package to the Saudis.
Continued on Page Six
According To Haig:
Israel Misinformed About
AWACS Package To Saudis
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Secre-
tary of State Alexander Haig told
newspaper editors that while con-
cern being expressed by Israel over
the Reagan Administration's pro-
posed multi-billion dollar arms
package to Saudi Arabia was
"understandable," some of it is a
"reflection of a lot of misinforma-
tion and exaggeration in terms of the
capabilities of the system."
Haig was not specific but appar-
ently his remarks were in line with
the briefing given reporters by a
senior White House official who
stressed that US military and
civilian personnel would be needed
to maintain and operate the AWACS.
The official, who was not identi-
fied, said that 30 US Air Force
personnel and about 410 American
civilians, hired by Boeing and other
defense contractors, will be needed
to fly, operate and maintain the five
AWACS the Administration wants to
sell to Saudi Arabia. But the Admin-
istration still has not made clear
what the eventual role of the Ameri-
can personnel will be when the
Saudis take complete title to the
planes.
Haig's remarks were made in
response to questions following his
address to the American Society of
Newspaper Editors at the Washing-
ton-Sheraton Hotel. Haig did not
refer to the sale to the Saudis of the
AWACS nor to enhancement equip-
ment for the 62 F-l5s already sold to
the Saudis during his speech which
dealt with the direction of American
foreign policy in general under the
Reagan Administration.
Continued on Page Six
Levine And Ross To Receive
ORT Service Award
"..?�'. . :
Albert Levine
Sidney Leiwant, president of the
American ORT Federation, and
Alan M. Schwartz, president of the
Boston Men's ORT Council, jointly
announced the designation of Albert
I. Levine and Melvin A. Ross as
recipients of the National ORT 1981
Ben Gurion Distinguished Com-
munity Service Award. The event in
their honor, ORT's Second Century
Founders Dinner, will be held
Sunday evening, May 17 at the
Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
In making the announcement,
Leiwant stated: "Al Levine and Mel
liltf
Melvin Ross
Ross are two of the most outstanding
Jewish leaders in America. They
have lent their energies and talents
to numerous Jewish organizations
and civic endeavors. In their many
years of service to the Jewish and
general community, they have
always left a remarkable deep
personal imprint on its develop-
ment." In recognition of their
meritorious leadership and service
to the Boston community and the
Jewish community nationwide, the
American ORT Federation will
Continued on Page Six
6 MONTH
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A SUBSTANTIAL PENALTY WILL BE IMPOSED.
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12.00%
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Thinking
Out loud
See Schtossberg's Column
oh Page Three
inc
JEWISH
Tiiviiccr
Vol. XXXVI, No. 37
April 30, 1981
Price 25<
Walkathon Israel
Set For Sunday
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.,
along with his congressional
predecessor, the Rev. Robert F.
Drinan, and Lt. Gov. Thomas
O'Neill will be headlining a list of
dignitaries participating in the
Walkathon-Israel Independence Day
Celebration this Sunday, May 3, in
Newton.
"We're hoping for a record
turnout of at least 10,000, many of
whom will participate in the 1 p.m.
Walkathon, then join in celebrating
Israel's 33rd birthday," Mary Ellen
Grossman (MEG) Goldberg, chair-
person of the day, said.
Congressman Frank, Fr. Drinan
and the lieutenant governor will be
among the leaders in the Presidents'
Mile, an innovation of the 1981
Walkathon designed to attract the
presidents of every major Jewish
organization in Greater Boston. Also
marching will be a host of celebrities
from the worlds of entertainment,
politics and the media.
Chairman of the Presidents' Mile
are The Hon. Michael Bavly, consul
general of Israel to Boston and Ruth
B. Fein, president of Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of Greater
Boston.
For young children and older
persons, the Presidents' Mile will
also serve as a mini-walk, with a
separate registration opening at 1:30
p.m. at One Wells Ave. Walkers will
be shuttled directly to the Solomon
Schechter Day School, site of the
Presidents' Mile.
Registration for the regular
walkathon opens at 12:30 p.m. at
One Wells Ave. On this year's
shorter, less hilly route, walkers will
proceed from the initial checkpoint
at One Wells Ave. to the Oak Hill
Playground, which serves as check-
point two; they will then move on to
Temple Beth Avodah, the Solomon
Schechter School, and conclude at
the Central Area Facility.
Continued on Page Six
News Highlights
REPORT AUSTRIA WILL SELL
ABOUT 100 TANKS TO SAUDIS
VIENNA, (JTA) � About 100
Austrian tanks, originally intended
to go to Chile, will be sold instead to
Saudi Arabia, the West German
magazine, "Der Spiegel", reported.
The sale to Chile by the tank
manufacturer, Steyr-Dalmler-Puch,
fell through last year after wide-
spread public protests forced the
government to deny an export
permit to that country, governed by
a rightwing military dictatorship..
The manufacturer has since
managed to interest the Saudis in
buying most of the tanks, "Der
Spiegel" said. Despite opposition in
Parliament by members who
consider the deal potentially
dangerous to Israel, it is apparently
supported by Foreign Minister
Willipad Pahr. "Der Spiegel"
quoted Pahr as observing that the
Arabs are not engaged in a shooting
war with Israel.
CqaM, �K
CREAM
-certified Kosher -
BROOKLINE VILLAGE
566-9008
734-5000
RED CAB
DUTCH UNIFIL SOLDIERS
INTERCEPT TERRORISTS
TEL AVIV, (JTA) � Soldiers of
the Dutch contingent of the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) intercepted eight terror-
ists in their sector and forced them
to leave the area after confiscating
their weapons, a UNIFIL spokes-
man said. He said the terrorists
were members of George Habash's
Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, an offshoot of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization.
Meanwhile, the UNIFIL command
has lodged a complaint with the PLO
in Beirut against the firing of 24
missiles from PLO positions toward
the UNIFIL-held area. There were
no casualties, the UNIFIL spokes-
man said.
The UN forces in Lebanon have
been receiving their food, spare
parts and other supplies through the
port of Haifa in Israel for the past
two weeks because renewed fighting
in Beirut has closed the port. The
port of Sidon on the south Lebanese
coast has also been closed, UN
sources said.
JUSTICE ETZIONI CONDEMNS
ATTACK ON PERES
JERUSALEM, (JTA) � Chair-
man of the Central Elections
Committee, Justice Moshe Etzioni,
sharply condemned the attack on
Labor Party chairman Shimon
Peres and Histadrut Sec. Gen.
Yeroham Meshel during the
Mimouna festivities in Jerusalem.
Regan Delays Arms
Sale To Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON, (JTA) � Sen.
majority leader Howard Baker
(R.Tenn.) announced that President
Reagan has agreed to delay submis-
sion of the Administration's
proposed multi-billion dollar arms
package sale to Saudi Arabia until at
least the fall in order to allow
Congress to have some "input" into
the proposal.
Baker, who made the announce-
ment while answering questions on
CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" pro-
gram, predicted that the arms
proposal when finally adopted would
be "significantly different" than the
package now being mentioned. He
said that the way the package is now
becoming publicized, including the
sale of five AWACS and enhance-
ment equipment for the 62 F-15 jet
fighters, it would have a "hard time
passing Congress."
Baker suggested that there are
many ways that the AWACS sale
could be changed. He listed some as
including joint American and Saudi
crews and joint processing of data,
Jewish Vote
Appears Split
In France
PARIS, (JTA) � The French
Jewish electorate seems split in
supporting the two candidates,
President Valery Giscard d'Estaing
and Socialist leader Francois
Mitterrand, who will face each other
May 10 in the run-off elections for
the French Presidency. The two
men emerged from the preliminary
first round as the top vote-getters
and are expected to run neck-in-neck
in the finals.
The Jewish community as such
decided not to participate in the
election campaign, but a Jewish
splinter group, Jewish Revival, led
by a young attorney, Henri Hajdne-
berg, is calling for a "sanction vote"
against Giscard which amounts to a
vote in favor of the Socialist leader.
Hajdenberg has called on France's
Jews to "punish the (incumbent)
President for his pro-Arab policy."
There are some 400,000 Jewish
voters out of a total of 36.5 million
and the Jewish vote might deter-
mine the outcome should the
election be as close as most political
analysts expect. In 1974 Giscard won
by only 450,000 votes against
Mitterrand. Both candidates have
influential Jewish supporters.
Giscard can count on European
Parliament President Simone Veil,
and Mitterrand on former Premier
Pierre Mendes-France.
Recent results indicated that the
Jews, as far as could be ascertained
from a study of voting areas with
strong Jewish concentrations, split
their vote along the same lines as the
general public. Both candidates are
preparing to actively woo the Jewish
electorate during the next two
weeks.
The two candidates are expected
to discuss the Middle East when they
meet face to face in a television
debate before the elections.
or American control of the final end
product. He said that what the
consultations with Congress would
try to achieve would be to make the
final package "more acceptable to
our friends in Israel and still
acceptable to our friends in Saudi
Arabia."
The Senator would not indicate
how he would vote for the present
package. But he said as the
"President's point man" in the
Senate, he would be inclined to
support major Administration pro-
posals unless it conflicted with his
conscience.
Baker projected that Congress
will "not like" the heavy pressure it
is expected to undergo from friends
of Israel who are opposed to the sale
of the arms package to the Saudis.
Continued on Page Six
According To Haig:
Israel Misinformed About
AWACS Package To Saudis
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Secre-
tary of State Alexander Haig told
newspaper editors that while con-
cern being expressed by Israel over
the Reagan Administration's pro-
posed multi-billion dollar arms
package to Saudi Arabia was
"understandable," some of it is a
"reflection of a lot of misinforma-
tion and exaggeration in terms of the
capabilities of the system."
Haig was not specific but appar-
ently his remarks were in line with
the briefing given reporters by a
senior White House official who
stressed that US military and
civilian personnel would be needed
to maintain and operate the AWACS.
The official, who was not identi-
fied, said that 30 US Air Force
personnel and about 410 American
civilians, hired by Boeing and other
defense contractors, will be needed
to fly, operate and maintain the five
AWACS the Administration wants to
sell to Saudi Arabia. But the Admin-
istration still has not made clear
what the eventual role of the Ameri-
can personnel will be when the
Saudis take complete title to the
planes.
Haig's remarks were made in
response to questions following his
address to the American Society of
Newspaper Editors at the Washing-
ton-Sheraton Hotel. Haig did not
refer to the sale to the Saudis of the
AWACS nor to enhancement equip-
ment for the 62 F-l5s already sold to
the Saudis during his speech which
dealt with the direction of American
foreign policy in general under the
Reagan Administration.
Continued on Page Six
Levine And Ross To Receive
ORT Service Award
"..?�'. . :
Albert Levine
Sidney Leiwant, president of the
American ORT Federation, and
Alan M. Schwartz, president of the
Boston Men's ORT Council, jointly
announced the designation of Albert
I. Levine and Melvin A. Ross as
recipients of the National ORT 1981
Ben Gurion Distinguished Com-
munity Service Award. The event in
their honor, ORT's Second Century
Founders Dinner, will be held
Sunday evening, May 17 at the
Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
In making the announcement,
Leiwant stated: "Al Levine and Mel
liltf
Melvin Ross
Ross are two of the most outstanding
Jewish leaders in America. They
have lent their energies and talents
to numerous Jewish organizations
and civic endeavors. In their many
years of service to the Jewish and
general community, they have
always left a remarkable deep
personal imprint on its develop-
ment." In recognition of their
meritorious leadership and service
to the Boston community and the
Jewish community nationwide, the
American ORT Federation will
Continued on Page Six
6 MONTH
CERTIFICATES*
14.292%
RATE
15.019%
SVa% now being paid on
N.O.W. CHECKING ACCOUNTS
COOLIDGE CORNER CO-OPERATIVE BANK
1320 BEACON STREET (CooHdge Comer) BROOKLINE TELEPHONE: 232-2800
BANK BY MAIL... WE PAY THE POSTAGE BOTH WAYS - ALL DEPOSITS INSURED IN FULL
OPEN 7:30 A.M. UNTIL 6:30 P.M. MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
�EARLY WITHDRAWAL IS GRANTED ONLY WITH THE BANK'S CONSENT, AND IF CONSENT IS GRANTED.
A SUBSTANTIAL PENALTY WILL BE IMPOSED.
30 MONTH
CERTIFICATES*
12.00%
RATE
12.94%
YIELD